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Howe, Ranges of Wilson's and Willoiv Thrushes. 



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specimen along the line of the 50th parallel of latitude between 

 Newfoundland and Rainy Lake River. Although this appar- 

 ent hiatus exists, careful comparison and measurements show 

 no difference between specimens from these two localities. The 

 specimen from Chicago, 111., which Mr. Ridgway cited in the 

 collection of H. K. Coale of that city (No. 15681), taken Sep- 

 tember 16, was undoubtedly a fall straggler, but probably not so 

 far out of its range as at that time supposed. The bird recorded 

 from Cook Co., Texas (Cook's Migration in the Miss. Valley, 

 Bull. No. 2, U. S. Dept. of Agr., p. 284) was probably also a 

 straggler. The pair of Thrushes observed by Mr. Brewster on 

 Anticosti may have been of this race, for without the bird in the 

 hand it is difficult, though not impossible, to tell it from tlylocichla 

 fuscescens, and it seems unlikely that Mr. Brewster should identify 

 fuscescens or its subspecies for alicke. The specimen taken at 

 Newport, before referred to (also typical salicicola), and the 

 Willow Thrush recorded from near the town of Chester, South 

 Carolina, October 5, 1888, by Leverett M. Loomis (Auk, Vol. 

 VI, No. 2, p. 194), and a male taken by me at Bristol, Rhode 

 Island, on September 24, 1899 (typical salicicola), are probably 

 not stragglers, as one might heretofore have supposed, from the 

 far West, but from Newfoundland. The question at once arises 

 as suggested above, whether salicicola, as it inhabits Newfound- 

 land, does not also inhabit Labrador, Anticosti, and surrounding 

 regions, and whether it does not also inhabit the intervening 

 country between its known western and eastern habitats. 



It will be interesting to see whether many of the eastern United 

 States collections do not contain specimens of salicicola taken 

 late in the fall or perhaps early in the spring, formerly identified 

 as Hylocichla fuscescens} 



It is thought that it may be of value to add here, beside the 



' Since the above was put in type I liave received from Mr. W. E. Saunders 

 a specimen of H. f. salicicola from Ottawa, Ont., taken Sept. 19, 1899. Being 

 a fall specimen, it onlj shows the southward migration of this race extends as 

 far west as Ottawa, or that in case the bird had followed a direct southern 

 route, that the region directly north of Ottawa is inhabited by H.f. salicicola, 

 which would be interesting as filling the gap between its western and eastern 



